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Favourite Elderberry Wine Recipe (13% ABV) 22.5L Carboy 5L Red Grape Juice 5Kg Fresh Elderberries or 1Kg Dried & 4.4Kg Sugar GV2 Yeast & Nutrient. Add Late: 2.5Kg Raspberries / Blueberries / Cherries / Forest Fruits 1 US Gallon 830ml Red Grape Juice 830g Fresh Elderberries or...

Versatile Grapple Wine Recipe (11% ABV) I like using grape juice with apple juice. I think the two create a synergy which is better than either a grape juice wine or an apple juice wine alone. Here is a Versatile Recipe which I always stick to when making wine, it gives almost unlimited...

I have repeatedly had issues when making wines which contain citrus zest! I have been rinsing well the citrus fruit while giving it a scrub with a scourer, before zesting it avoiding the white pith. Ive then added this to my fruit juice and sugar and proceeded as usual. Has anyone else...

Has anyone else had any issues getting white grape juice in the UK lately? Sainsburys stopped selling it at the beginning of the year, and Asda have just stopped selling it too. I have had a look around all the supermarkets (apart from Netto), and it is only still supplied by Waitrose, where...

Hi Guys, After frustration with a lot of useless recipes which seem to be out there, I have put together a list of recipes, which I like and I believe should be reliable. I have also given the processes I use, and other information I find useful! I have provided a few links to books on Amazon...

Hi guys, I do love red wine, but at present, it seems like I can only make it at the end of summer when there are black and elder berries on trees. Using frozen fruit turns out so expensive. Has anyone had any success making red wine from juices? I was wondering about 3L red grape juice...

Has anyone had any good results with making wine from dried elderberries? I made some once and it came out terribly, then made some with fresh and it was fantastic! It may have been down to me method: I boiler 250g and 1.25Kg sugar in water for a bit, cooled and pulp fermented for 10...

I have been working on a spread sheet which we will be releasing soon which allows wine makers to determine the acidity of their wines by either measuring acidity by titration or reading pH, which then gives the amount of acid / alkali they need to add to reach their desired acid level as well...

I love the idea of oaking up a red wine with smoked chips. I made a plum wine, which I was planning on coming out as a red, and I added 7g of smoked oak "chips" (although they were more like a dust?). The wine didn't actually come out like a red, and much more like a rose...

The elderberries are almost now in season, and I managed to buy a cheap 2nd hand steamer juice extractor, which some people swear by. I am just wondering about how good these are compared to just bringing the berries to the boil to kill germs for a second, giving them a quick mash, then...

"Making Award Winning Wines at Home" by Bill Smith is such a great wine making book. I am currently making a gallon of the following base wine, which can then be used to make 6 different wines: Base Wine (Chiltern Masters / Bill Smith) ~15.5% 1.5L White Grape Juice or 368ml White Grape...

Are there any brewers from Liverpool on here?! Id love it if there was a wine circle here! Ive started a Facebook page for it too! /www.facebook.com/HomeBrewBottleSwap

Ive attached a copy of my country wine recipe designer on the HomeBrewTalk site at the link: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/country-wine-recipe-designer-456071/ I produced it after looking at recipes from every country wine book I could find, and after fermenting 20 different fruit wines...

I have started up a thread where fellow brewers can post up photos from any stage in their wine making process, from the ingredients, the must, the must in primary, discarded pulp, the different stages of secondary, maturing, before finings, after finings, syphoning, bottling etc etc (you get...

I have just uploaded a step by step pictorial guide of how to make Cranberry & Raisin Champagne. Its a very Christmassy fizzy wine: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/demijohn-must-produce-pics-454015/index2.html I have also put it on my own site, which can be viewed at...

Ive attached a copy of my country wine recipe designer on the HomeBrewTalk site at the link: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/country-wine-recipe-designer-456071/ I produced it after looking at recipes from every country wine book I could find, and after fermenting 20 different fruit wines...